Principle of operations
- 90% of the observing time of the telescope devoted to a deep-wide-fast survey
- one complete visit of the southern hemisphere sky every 3-4 nights, from 2022 for 10 years
- 43% of the celestial sphere will be covered by this survey
- each patch of the sky to be visited about 1000 times
Science themes determining the nature of dark energy and dark matter
- taking an inventory of the solar system
- exploring the transient optical sky
- mapping the structure and evolution of the Milky Way
Current status
- Formal agreement with LSSTC and NCSA (2015) IN2P3 makes arrangements to connect CC-IN2P3 to Chicago (StarLight)
- Allocation of 20 Gbps for the segment Paris (GEANT) ⇄ Chicago (StarLight) devoted to LSST need